Flag holder for the motometers and similar devices of automobiles



March 15 1927.

- M. A. KANE FLAG HOLDER FOR THE MOTOMET-ERS AND SIMILAR DEVICES 0F AUTOMOBILES Filed March 15; 1.92.6

Patented Mar. 15, 19 27.

UNITED STATE 1 PATENroFFIcE.

MURRAY ALBERT KANE, or JOHNSTOWN, rE'nNsYLv nIA- FLAG HOLDER Fon'rHE MOTOMETERS AND sIMrLAn DEVICES or AUTOMOBILES.

Application filed March 13, 1926. Serial 110.94.,508.

This invention relates to flag holders for the sections are held together by securingelements' so that-they clamp not only upon the elements to' bev held but upon the element to which the first named elements are to be attached. 7

'These and other objects I attain by the construction shown in the accompanying drawing, wherein for the purpose of illus-;

tration is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention and wherein:-

Figure '1 is an edge, elevation showing a flag holder constructed in accordance with,

my invention applied to a motometer;

' Figure '2 is a front elevation of one of the sections;

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional .view

through one of the sections;

Figure 4 is an enlarged detail plan view showing the manner in which the sections clamp together upon the flag staffs.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, the device is in the; form of a plate 10 having formed therein an opening 11 which opens through one edge of the plate. At the edge of the plate, the opening 11 is restricted. About the edges of this opening, the plate is offset, as at 12, for a distance approximately equal to one-half the thickness of the element E to which the device is to be attached, at present disclosed as a motometer. The body of the plate exteriorly of the 11 has formed in the opposite face thereof from said flange 11 a series of concentered depressions mediate these depressions, the plate has formed therethrough openings 14: for the passage of securing elements such as small bolts bymeans. of which the two sectionsv of the completed flag holder are held in assembled relation.

offset producing the flange 13,- one of these depressions being arranged substantially upon the vertical It is pointed out that these securing elements 14 provide at the same time a means for clamping the sections togetherupon the stems of flags or similar ornaments and for clamping the sections together upon the ele- 1 ment E. It is further pointed. out that when these sections are clamped together, due to the fact that the shape of the offset flange 12 conforms to the shaping ofthe element E and embraces this element at opposite sides of the point of greatest width thereof, the sections are rendered unremov-' able until the securing elements shall have been removed. e I I It will be obvious that a device of this character may be very cheaply and readily produced and is very readily applied to a motometer or similar ornament.

I claim 1. A flag holder for use with motometers and the like comprising two sections each formed from a sheet of metal having an opening extending to one edge thereof and being formed about'the edges of the opening with an offset flange, the body of'the tion, said depressed portions combining in the assembled relation of the sections to produce asocket for the reception of a staflf and securing elements directed through said ,sheet being provided with a depressed porsections for clamping the section's upon the.

staff and upon the ornament to which they are applied. 1

2. A flagholder for use with motometers and the like comprising two sections each formed from a sheet of metal having an 7 opening extending toone edge thereof and being'formed about the edges of the opening with an offset flange, the body of the sheet being provided with a depressed portion, said depressed portions combining in the assembled relation ofthe sections to produce a socket for the reception of a staff and securing elements directed through said sections for clamping the sections upon the staff and upon the ornament to which they are applied, theoflset flange conforming in shaping to the element to which the holder is to be applied, the opening of each sheet being restricted at the edgesyof the sheet. In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

MURRAY ALBERT KANE; 

